Aims & Objectives

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937828059Author Robbie McClintockFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Collaboratory for Liberal LearningPublisher Collaboratory for Liberal...

Thirteen contributions from academics representing a variety of disciplines confront issues relating to social justice in a post-9/11 world. Sample topics include the politics of coalition building among progressive educators and the role of...

Career Development in the Schools describes a dynamic process that continues to evolve in its rationale and practice. In many schools and in a variety of scholarly writings, the status of career development is controversial. Some observers assert that...

Emerging from the contested site of a new university campus, educators reflect upon the transformative process of reconceptualising and rebuilding a faculty of education in the twenty-first century. Contested Sites in Education seeks to improve an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223433163Author Ary S, JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Ary S. Jr.Publisher Ary S. Jr.Weight(grams) 345g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781970133820Author David M SchmittouFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint EdumatchPublisher EdumatchWeight(grams) 227g

This book examines how common e-learning technologies open up compelling, if limited, experiential spaces for users, similar to the imaginary worlds opened up by works of fiction. However, these experiential worlds are markedly different from the...

Cognitive capitalism - sometimes referred to as 'third capitalism,' after mercantilism and industrial capitalism - is an increasingly significant theory, given its focus on the socio-economic changes caused by Internet and Web 2.0 technologies that have...

In a time of unprecedented changes globally, Flourishing in the Holistic Classroom offers an educational model that is dynamic, organic, and adaptive. The book offers key principles, dispositions, and practices that holistic educators draw from to create...

Plantation Pedagogy originates from an Afro-Caribbean primary school teacher's experience. It provides a discourse which extends and illuminates the limitations of current neo-liberal and global rationalizations of the challenges posed to a teacher's...

The idea of fragmentation has transformed the living, convivial pursuit of knowledge into something akin to an industrial assembly line. Schooling in North America is inherently based on this idea, working against the spirit of pedagogy and the very...

As women’s university participation expanded rapidly in the first decade of the twentieth century, two close friends at Queen’s University Belfast nursed scholarly ambitions. Helen Waddell, budding feminist literary critic, and Maude Clarke, future Irish...

This book simultaneously provides multiple analyses of critical pedagogy in the twenty-first century while showcasing the scholarship of this new generation of critical scholar-educators. Needless to say, the writers herein represent just a small subset...

A group of multiethnic scholars and practitioner researchers explore concepts of teaching for social justice and preparing teachers to work towards social justice in schools and communities. The objectives of this book are to 1. present different...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627346856Author Patrick WhiteheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Brown Walker Press (FL)Publisher Brown Walker Press (FL)Weight(grams) 345g

This book is not a comprehensive history of moral education in American schools. Rather, it is an episodic history that deals with selected periods, movements, and individuals throughout the course of American education history from the time of colonial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959347200Author Matthew WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint EdumatchPublisher EdumatchWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 4mm

Postcolonial Challenges in Education traces the palimpsest histories of imperialism and colonialism, and puts to work the catachrestic interventions of anti-imperialist and decolonizing projects. This book functions as a set of theoretical, empirical,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783039109418Author Brendan WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 373Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 540g

Given the current social climate this book interrogates capitalism's relationships to and influence on education. More importantly, this book is part of a greater effort to re-humanize society by generating dialogue, encouraging solidarity and providing...

Today, we live in changing times and how we respond to these changes creates some uneasiness in our daily lives. Some of these changes reflect demographic shifts in power and paradigm in the United States, while others reflect the reckless assumption...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223494959Author K AhramFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint K. AhramPublisher K. AhramWeight(grams) 95g

Competition, Community, and Educational Growth: Contemporary Perspectives on Competitive Speech and Debate is an up-to-date text providing informed academic thought concerning the impact of forensics. Its primary focus is to demonstrate how the forensic...

An Ecological Pedagogy of Joy is an interweaving that explores the conduct of pedagogy in these ecologically sorrowful times. Drawing upon the authors’ collective experiences as teachers and students, as well as Indigenous ancestries and knowledge,...

Becoming Activist is a revolutionary study of youth human rights activism and literacy learning. The book follows five urban youth organizers from the Drop Knowledge Project in New York City. Intentionally polyvocal, the voices of the five youth are...

Competition, Community, and Educational Growth: Contemporary Perspectives on Competitive Speech and Debate is an up-to-date text providing informed academic thought concerning the impact of forensics. Its primary focus is to demonstrate how the forensic...

How We Take Action brings together practical examples of social justice in language education from a wide range of contexts. Many language teachers have a desire to teach in justice-oriented ways, but perhaps also feel frustration at how hard it is to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789973372Author David RidleyFormat PaperbackImprint Peter Lang International Academic PublishersPublisher Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

Globalization has a profound effect on the mission and goals of education worldwide. One of its most visible manifestations is the worldwide endorsement of the idea of 'education for global citizenship,' which has been enthusiastically supported by...

This book simultaneously provides multiple analyses of critical pedagogy in the twenty-first century while showcasing the scholarship of this new generation of critical scholar-educators. Needless to say, the writers herein represent just a small subset...

Education has long been viewed as a vehicle for building community. However, the critical role of education and schools for constructing community resistance is undermined by recent trends toward the centralization of educational policy-making (e.g...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988542645Author Angus McFarlaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Nzcer PressPublisher Nzcer PressWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm * 2mm

The Curriculum and Pedagogy book series is an enactment of the mission and values espoused by the Curriculum and Pedagogy Group, an international educational organization serving those who share a common faith in democracy and a commitment to public...

In this book, a group of researchers and educators consider in detail the possibilities and tensions of curriculum-making in early childhood education. The book discusses a wide range of issues related to postfoundational approaches to curriculum, such...

This book explores the diversity of American roles in such cross-cultural engagement in education for democracy, both within the United States and around the world. Cross-cultural engagement in education for democracy inevitably bears the impressions of...

This book addresses the disparity between transformative learning theory as espoused and practiced in the classrooms of the academy, and its application beyond. It articulates new models of transformative education that integrate transformative learning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223351702Author Cheryl AngstFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Cheryl AngstPublisher Cheryl AngstWeight(grams) 118g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889751441Author Shivam GoelFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 95g

Internationalization plays an important role in shaping the philosophy and practice of higher education, and it is arguably one of the most durable University achievements. Offering creative ways to achieve a shift from isolation to communication between...

Applicable for both qualitative and quantitative researchers who work within a critical theory paradigm, Dialectical Research Methods in the Classical Marxist Tradition utilizes Marxist principles in aiding the design of inquiry whether at the...